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Milan in the Back Bay
… It was a fluke not happenstance, but the fish—that epitomized our visit to Via Matta, the stylish … package and was sliced open by our waiter to emit a rush of steam infused with fennel, lemon, and black … subtle, simple, fresh seasonings that, in the hands of chef Luis Morales, transformed the flat, plain fish into …
Issue: January-February 2003
A Design School Redesign
… On October 23 , the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) announced a … announcement of the curriculum change came as an abrupt surprise, and an unwelcome one. More than 200 students and …
Brevia
… Dean Steps Down Photograph by Kris Snibbe/ Harvard News Office Barry R. Bloom Barry R. Bloom , dean of the Harvard School of Public Health since 1999 (and thus the … Chicago, and Georgetown saw their early-applicant rosters rise 20 percent to 45 percent. Admissions officials expect a …
Issue: January-February 2008
The Coming Campaign
… in planning, long hinted about—is under way. When the goal and “quiet phase” fundraising results are publicly … highest priorities for renewal and the future pursuit of knowledge and education. Evidence of the preannouncement fundraising appears in Harvard’s …
Issue: January-February 2013
After Our Bubble
… Americans have not experienced austerity in a long time, so the decade ahead may come as a shock. Expect continued high unemployment, slow wage growth, the possibility of social and political unrest, higher taxes, cuts in … Is Different , a study of eight centuries of financial crises; see “What This Country Needs,” January-February, page …
Issue: July-August 2010
Off the Shelf
… military. Having really negotiated with North Korea (see “ The Korean Nuclear Crisis ,” September-October 2003, page 38), and later served as secretary of defense, Ash Carter (now director of the Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and …
Issue: July-August 2019
An Artful Business
… Aiming to create their own “art stimulus package” during the 2008-09 economic … bakery in the East Village. Ani, a Yale graduate, was tired of cycling through internships. “There seemed no good reason … idiosyncratic, locally owned shops and restaurants that comprise hip Boerum Hill. It mounts solo exhibits and group …
Issue: September-October 2013
Conversation on Teaching, Continued: Going Global
… The Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) continues its series … and geographies around the world and across time. Given the rise of global communications and economic … becomes insufficient," and in fact, new understandings arise from a "global South" perspective. She saw Harvard as …
Studies Nature, Will Travel
… From the highest treetops to the tiniest anthills on the ground below, Mark Moffett, Ph.D. ’87, has seen it all. An expert in … different species manage to fit together in these high-rise apartments called trees.” In addition to his …
Issue: January-February 2007
"Theater without All the Drama"
… “These shows are funny no matter your age or upbringing,” … Lurtz ’07, who has just finished her term as president of the Harvard-Radcliffe Gilbert and Sullivan Players … have been staging the nineteenth-century collaborations of Arthur Sullivan and W.S. Gilbert for 50 years now. In …
Issue: March-April 2007
Beyond the Crisis Du Jour
… During a meeting on the morning of April 15—Good Friday, and before the first … the COVID-19 pandemic continues, coping with the endless crises it imposed on a residential academic community no …
The Need for Communal Healing
… grief. It has started to feel as though it will spill out of me and onto the floor, and when it does it will make a mess that … deaths of loved ones, many are going through mental health crises, and most seem to be experiencing other, individual …
Issue: July-August 2022
Behind the Scenes: Covering Opioids
… Sustainers like you makes it possible for us to produce the high-quality journalism that you expect and rely on. … his home town, the now impoverished, postindustrial city of Pontiac, Michigan . I knew I had to get on a plane and … partners to better the world—connecting with the University of Michigan to combat inner-city poverty and the opioids …
Vogue Revealed: "The September Issue"
… The new documentary film The September Issue, directed by R. J. Cutler '83, takes viewers into the hallways, offices, and meetings behind Vogue magazine. Cutler, who … (it was nominated for a 1994 Academy Award), shot 300 hours of footage to record his portrait of Vogue and its famously …
The Deficit, Diminished
… Dean Michael D. Smith reported on May 11, at the last regular Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) meeting of the academic year, that the faculty’s unrestricted …
Issue: July-August 2010